Yelp to Ramp Up Anti-Google Pressure in Washington

Online review firm Yelp Inc. is unveiling a new Washington office today as the company steps up its activism on online competition and ramps up pressure for federal antitrust scrutiny of Alphabet Inc.'s Google.

Yelp’s first public policy event at the office will be focused on lessons learned from the Justice Department’s monopolization lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. during the Clinton administration. Google critics such as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine are among those slated to speak.

“It’s a timely conversation to look at the 20th anniversary of the initiation of the last seminal ...